• Special thanks to mi comadre, Claudia. Carlos y yo tuvimos broncas last night so I had too much pride to ask him to double check my Spanish for errors. Claudia came to my rescue this week! Gracias, amiga!

English translation:
Suegra is sick. She’s been like this for a few weeks already, coughing all over the place. After I saw her in the kitchen coughing into an open cabinet full of pots and pan, I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t stay silent.

“So that you don’t throw germs all over the house. You’re going to get everyone sick,” I said, “Didn’t they teach you that in school when you were little?”

“No,” she sniffed. “In El Salvador there is no need to cover your mouth. The germs don’t stick around like they do here. The houses there are wide open … and here they’re so closed up … ay no,” she sighed.

Well, after this conversation, she got a little upset with me. Every time she coughed and covered her mouth, she looked at me with narrowed eyes as if to say: Look! Look at this inconvenience which you’ve obligated me to do.

At the dinner table that night, she kept coughing and covering her mouth. Carlos asked between bites, “Are you still sick then, madre?” (As if it was not obvious.)

“Hopefully I will not die of the flu,” said Suegra, “If I die, you have to send my body back to El Salvador.”

She coughed, covering her mouth, “And Tracy,” she continued, “If you don’t accompany my body on the airplane, I will haunt you.”

Thank you for the translation! I don’t think she’d like it here on the wet coast of canada. Germs are really “sticking around” with the damp closed in air. Just covering your mouth isn’t good enough in our schools. It’s rude to use your hand, you are SUPPOSED to cough into the crook of your elbow otherwise you get dirty looks from everyone! Its taken me years to re-train myself. eeeeeewwwwww….. germs!

Tracy,
I enjoyed your post! I know this might sound crazy but I sometimes wish my suegra lived close by! I get a little celosa reading all your post about suegra. It sounds like she makes life interesting! I hope you will check out my post because I posted in Spanish today! My 1st! And….. hubby is out of town, so no one to correct any errors I made or broken sentences etc…. Gracia a dios tuve mi libro de los “spanish verbs” handy…jajaja

Just getting all caught up on your posts! The market you visited looks amazing! I wish we had such things here. The closest thing we have are the old ladies setting up tables at the mall and selling their crocheted slippers in 1974 colors. LOL!

All content is protected under federal U.S. Copyright law. Content is not to be reproduced, copied or re-posted in any way without prior written consent.

Images used here that do not belong to Latinaish.com and appearing without attribution are carefully selected copyright free images released under Creative Commons via Pixabay. If your photo has been uploaded to Pixabay without your consent and you wish to have it removed from Latinaish.com, please contact us.